Tying the Lunn's Particular Dry Fly with Davie McPhail 

A pattern that has caught me a lot of trout on my local river in West Limerick in the long summer evenings. An angler who is long gone told me of this imitation.Thanks a million Davie for putting up this tying.

Interesting. Just reading too about the Lunn's. Nice tying too. Tks Davie

" I've tied it couple of times along time ago" he says Amazing. Davy, keep turning them out ever fails to inspire. You cant beat a daily dose of Davy!!

Great looking dry fly pattern. Thank you Davie.

Just excellent tying like all other pattern you shared with us. With a fly pattern like Lunns Particular a few years ago I started as a newbie tying flies. It had cost me several yards of thread to arrive at a reasonably similar fly. Now I feel comfortable and more confident tying flies of more complex patterns. Thank you for that, Davie Mc Phail

Love the old tied flies. Perisol is very hard to find some colors are not available. Use to use it to put my eyes on my bamboo fly rods. I use Japanese silk now.

You always make it look so easy Davie. This fly is perfection.

And I enjoyed it as much the second time, Davie... =] Mike

Beautiful tying sequence Davy. I liked the way you zoomed back in to show the detailed process of setting the tail fibres. I regularly tied this pattern many moons ago. Your tying brings back memories for me. Using the old silks does add bulk but it saves all that extra winding when bulk is needed. Leaving "room" at the eye was the way of the dry fly back in the day when anglers used turle knots for their dries. You have made a superb version of the original here, many thanks for such a great video demonstration.👏👏👏👏👏👏

A gorgeous fly, well-tied.

Beautiful fly! Tks sharing with us;)

Davie, Would love to see you on Rumble.

I did enjoy it, Davie... thank you. And thank you for the Lunn's Particular link... a lot of fun for me there. Mike

A wonderful example of simplicity and the right materials all coming together in a great pattern! I'm going to give it a go!

Thank you Davie

A Lynn's Particular, tied with real silk! Thank you sir! 👍👍

Lovely pattern Davie.the body is nice that way.thanks for sharing

One of my personal favourites. So very enjoyable and relaxing, watching you tie these little works of art Dave!

Amazing pattern thx Davie wish you a great summer

Davie what a super fly one for my box & a great website to, I am looking up more of Lynn's flies 4 my 2023 box it's a shame you can't buy Pearsall’s gossamer silk anymore it's like hen teeth love tying these type of flies keep them coming fantastic tying also

You had me with the silk. Beautiful, clean tie. Parachutes and synthetics are great but there is just something about fishing a traditional dry. Maybe it's just remembering my youth. LOL. And thanks for the link.

Davie, got a vice and some materials for Christmas - your videos are absolutely brilliant. Haven't quite made it through them all but I'm getting there much to the Mrs' dismay.

Great fly early evening , beautifully tied

A particularly nice fly. Thank you for sharing it, & especially for sharing the link to the history & family of the originator. The history is fascinating & knowing the designer’s rationale for the fly & ingredients is valuable.

One of my favorite's

Love the traditional classics. Tied a few of these paraloop style but haven't got round to sampling yet.

Mega Thx Davie, As a fairly new tier, I’m always learning something from your videos. I never even thought about using the stem of a feather for tying a tapered body. I’ll remember this one for sure just like your last video using the CDC fluff as dubbing so I can maximize the most from all my materials.

Nice looking fly. I like the look of the body. When I first saw the fly, I thought you had used moose mane but I see you used the quill of a feather. So I have learned something I as always do when watching your videos. Last year I bought a book called Ira Gruber's Atlantic Salmon Flies. I knew the name Ira Gruber as he fished the Miramichi River, in New Brunswick and I grew up in New Brunswick. The book gives a look at the flies he would have used when he fished the Miramichi River. The signature feature of his flies is the cigar shaped body. I am more interested in trout flies than salmon flies but nonetheless the book gives me many ideas for tying a trout fly.

A lovely spent pattern Davie thanks

I've found the quill that forms the body is sometimes prone to split, this particularly true on older capes. Rubbing Vaseline into the quill can alleviate the problem. .

Very nice looking fly, superbly tied by you. It will be one I will have to try. Thanks !

Absolutely fantastic fly. Well done

Beautiful davie tied old school wow

Благодарю, Дэви! Отличная мушечка! Класс! 👍🤝🇰🇿

Nice fly Davie.

Thanks, Davie This is such a good looking pattern,,,, Love it

Just such a beautiful fly!

When tying the Lunns I find there is a tendency for the quill body to split when wound, this I suppose is down perhaps to my using ancient capes. This can be rectified by an application of good old fashioned Vaseline!

beautiful!

Amazing! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Oh yes! This made my day, cheers, great tying. Next up, Kite's Imperial? 😁 Classic patterns get very little love on the water nowadays. The Lunn's is a great evening spinner pattern to chuck down a pool. Or, for the long trudge back to the motor at the end of a day - keep the rod up and a Lunn's on. Somewhere on the way, a big one'cer will show in the gloaming, being very 'particular'... 😎👍

That looks like a real upwing! Cracker🤙

very nice

Looks almost like a Hendrickson mayfly

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Davie, yours is tied better than the ones on their website! I’m curious about their hooks though. They have an upturned eye. Have you ever tied on that type?

Looks like a modified quill Gordon

Hi Davie, I wonder if it would be a good thing to give a quill body a coat of clear varnish to make it more durable or it really doesn't matter?

Lovely fly going to fry this on the Clyde! Also is there the raffle this month? I have donated but never received my number Thanks

what make vice are you using?

Using dyed hackle for body doesn't work because it's white after you strip the hackle. You need natural hackle to be able to get non-white body.

What size hook is this and recommend sizes please

What bobbin holder are you using with the Pearsall’s?

Do you ever seal the quill, or leave it natural?

I've had a look at the Lunn website 👍 If as I suspect, the images shown there are an original tying, the body is quite intriguing. Among the *ahem ribbing, -I thought 'is that a mole, or wool dubbing in there!? (on mob,i so tricky to see) I think just maybe, it's the Dun hackles... There seems to be Dun showing under everything, even at the eye under head wraps. I think I even see a Dun fibre, or two next to the tail. Either the Dun hackles have been laid the length of the body (tips forward) and secured with the quill rib (tricky, and probably not the most secure) Or, the Dun hackles were possibly tied in facing to the rear (maybe part stripped, but not necessarily) leaving long Dun hackle tips projecting out the rear. The Dun hackles were then folded back up the shank to the head and ribbed with the quill and both secured at the head before the collar hackle is added. Tricky to judge final length of the tips, I'd have thought doing it that way (folded back up the body) and hard to lay fibres flat during ribbing - but it does look like it's Dun hackle showing under everything. I could be wrong, but those images were fascinating. I'm going to have to try that, and see how tricky it is to keep the Dun fibres flat to the body 🤔